Len DiMaggio stumbled into computer programming at business school and has never looked back. He considers himself very lucky to have always worked with and for fun and interesting people during his over two decades tracking elusive software bugs. One of his earliest work experiences was accompanying his first manager on long walks to collect blunt instruments to be used to break in new technical user documents. Len has worked for some of the better known pioneering technical companies such as DEC, BBN, GTE, Rational, IBM and now JBoss by Red Hat. Len is the software test team lead for the open source JBoss Service Oriented Architecture Platform (SOAP) which is built on Jboss ESB. This is Len's first book. He is a Most Valuable Blogger at Dzone where he is a frequent contributor. Len has also written over 50 articles for Dzone, Red Hat Magazine, Dr. Dobbs' Journal and other publications. Len writes a blog that is (mostly) dedicated to software testing subjects (http://swqetesting.blogspot.com/), is a proud member of the JBoss community (http://community.jboss.org/people/ldimaggio) and, when he is not testing software, is a frequent contributor to Fotopedia. Kevin is the Platform Architect for the SOA platform within JBoss, a division of Red Hat. After graduating from Newcastle University Kevin worked as a kernel programmer with Integrated Micro Products, developing fault tolerant network drivers. IMP were later acquired by Sun Microsystems where he was to discover Java. He has over fifteen years experience of Java, predominately Enterprise technologies, which he has used to develop software for technical, financial and local government clients. Before joining JBoss he was a Senior Engineer with Arjuna Technologies, working on the transaction products. Magesh Kumar B. is a Senior Software Engineer at JBoss a division of Red Hat. He has a Masters in Computer Applications from Coimbatore Institute of Technology. His passion is coding in Java and he has architected many enterprise applications prior to Red Hat. His project contributions include JBoss WS and JBoss Portal. His current projects are JBoss ESB and SwitchYard. He hails from Ooty and lives in Bangalore, India with his wife, three kids and his parents. You can reach him at
[email protected]. This is his first book.
